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The narrative structures of Robert Graves' historical fiction: a progression toward a conception of the hero in history
Most commentators on Robert Graves’ writings agree upon the importance of his ideas on mythology to the development of his unique theories on poets and poetry. Few critics have undertaken to apply the same approach toward an understanding of his fiction. This thesis undertakes to fill that gap by …
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Representations of the muse in the writings of Robert Graves: a study of five prose texts (1944-1950)
The conventional view of Robert Graves’s ideas about poetic inspiration is that they are presented in their entirety in The White Goddess - A Historical Grammar o f Poetic Myth (1948). However, this dissertation aims to argue that Graves’s four prose works, published in the 1940s and early 1950s - …
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Editorial Collaboration and Control: Laura Riding and the Seizen Press Years
… and literary theorist. Along with her partner, Robert Graves, Riding worked among and with important literary tastemakers of the Modernist era, such as Gertrude Stein, Len Lye and James Reeves. Riding's demanding and intense editorial and collaborative style resulted in some unique and …
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Play for Mortal Stakes: Funerals as Modernist Acts of Fiction
… consideration include poets of the Great War (Robert Graves, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, the Sitwells), and later writers such as Katherine Mansfield, Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf, W. H. Auden, Ivy Compton-Bumett, and James Joyce. Using the methodology of ritual studies, an …
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The Dancer Walking The Ruins: Laura Riding and Dialectical Thought
… she moved to London and began collaborating with Robert Graves, relocating with him to Majorca in 1929. Producing poetry, fiction, criticism and experimental philosophico-literary works, she became a formidable presence within European literary modernism. Many aspects of her work are dialectical. …
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Identity, Reality, and Truth in Memoirs from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
… Tim O'Brien, Paul Fussell, Wilfred Owen, and Robert Graves. Shoshana Johnson's I'm Still Standing explains how the self created during war cannot always be reconciled with the normal, peacetime selves which merge to create the summation of experience Martin refers to as "identity." Research …